Former renowned boxer Afrim Majanci: I call on the prosecution and external auditor to enter the Kosovo Boxing Federation

Kosovo boxing legend Afrim Majanci, together with coach Musli Zymberi, criticized the Kosovo Boxing Federation at a press conference today.

Majanci and Zymberi are members of the board of the Kosovo Boxing Federation.

Majanci has called for the prosecution and external auditor to enter the Kosovo Boxing Federation.

Majanci suspects that financial resources have been misused.

“Three weeks ago I requested an extraordinary meeting of the federation’s board, to tell them that something was not right and that I suspected there were problems with the finances, and that boxing was nowhere. They did not respond to me.

I have suspicions about the finances.

The main issue is last year’s ‘Adem Jashari’ tournament, and where the money was spent.

One boxer from Switzerland took part; he is Albanian but represented Switzerland.

Bulgaria had few boxers, the Czech Republic had few boxers, as did Albania and Macedonia.

The tournament lasted two days.

The amount was over 24 thousand euros, but I cannot work out, even with a calculator, where the money went.

Through the media, I call on the external auditor and the Prosecution; I have suspected misappropriation since after the war,” Majanci says.

But that is not all; Majanci has other suspicions as well and has even accused General Secretary Latif Demolli.

“Another, even greater suspicion arises: there is only one person with access to the finances, and that is the general secretary, who has 5-6 roles. He never accounts for where the money spent has gone.

He never accounts for where the money goes.

He has 5-6 roles: he is secretary, treasurer, team manager, spokesperson, and selector.

He even makes the selection on behalf of the selector, saying, ‘Take these, not those.’

He does not even consult the selector; he just sends them to training camps without any criteria. Instead of sending me somewhere special for training, he sends them to Durrës.

When the tournament is held, he sets up a committee, but he decides who gets the awards.

I don’t know which federation sends just one person, who is team manager, treasurer, spokesperson and secretary all by himself; that happens only in North Korea,” the Kosovo boxing legend stressed.

He also mentioned several scandals:

The biggest scandal was the Kosovo Individual Championship in Gjilan, where one boxer weighed 66 kg and the other 86 kg—a 20 kg difference.

With such a huge difference, the boxers should not even be allowed to face each other in the ring, even if the difference were just 10 grams.

A trivial incident took place between coaches in Gjilan.

At the board meeting, I asked the match delegate for a report. The delegate, who is the federation’s vice president, said it had been a technical error. He even said it was fortunate that nothing had happened, with a 20 kg difference.

This is the worst of it.

The delegate says there had been another such case earlier and asks, ‘Why didn’t you react, Afrim?’—meaning there had been cases like this before, too.

The selectors are appointed without the Professional Council. We have a Professional Council on paper, but it does not function and they do not call it together.

The board members directly choose the selector without the Professional Council. Latif Demolli also influences this, as he says, and the board makes the decision,” board member Majanci explains.

“I have information from Thailand: one person was overweight because he had not been ill, and he lost the bout. The coach and the others should have checked beforehand, before they went.

No one accounts for all the expenses incurred,” Majanci says, among other things.